The pond at the bottom of my garden is less than two years old, so, as I expected, I didn't get any frog spawn last year. I know there are frogs about as I have spotted the odd one pretty regularly, so I am hopeful for this year.

We all know how mild this winter has been and also how Spring seems to start in the south and work its way north.

So here's the Down the Lane version of "Spring Watch"; post here as soon as you spot frog spawn and we can see if we can get a picture of how Spring is progressing.

There is a house with a good size pond in the front garden in our village. Last year I was watching the frog spawn swimming about every time I passed. At least I thought it was frog spawn, black spots with wavy tails. Hoping I would see them change into little froglets, but nothing happened. They got less and less, but no frogs. Now I wonder if they were something else.

I have frogs in my back garden but no pond. I think they come from the neighbours garden at the back.

Not seen any spawn on our village pond for a couple of years now. My son who lives in a town and has a small pond plays host to frogs which seem to come from nowhere. One year he caught several and we brought them to the village pond in a bucket (with lid). I think possibly the moorhens and ducks have eaten the spawn in its early stages.

No frogspawn for us this year. Don't think the chickens have helped, as last year tadpoles seemed to be a delicacy along with the odd goldfish!The female frogs turned up, 2 or 3, but no males seemed to come calling.

The Toads on the other hand have produced lots of strings, noticed them today, but they must be a few days old due to sediment having settled on them.

It seems extremely late but the weather and temperature has been fluctuating wildly here this year and on our walk this morning we came across some freshly produced frog spawn. Not sure if it will develop but I was tempted to collect some and try to raise it at home before releasing the frogs back in the wild, any thoughts??